English noun: honey locust | |||
1. | honey locust (plant) tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World | ||
Synonyms | Gleditsia triacanthos | ||
Broader (hypernym) | locust, locust tree | ||
Member meronym | genus Gleditsia, Gleditsia | ||